On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 09:24:15PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > 2.2.1 says "the packages in main > > > > must not require or recommend a package outside of main for compilation > > or > > execution (thus, the package must not declare a "Pre-Depends", "Depends", > > "Recommends", "Build-Depends", or "Build-Depends-Indep" relationship on a > > non- > > main package)," > > > > In practice there is a consensus that this also means "packages must not > > access > > external network servers" which conforms to the spirit but not to the > > letter of > > this section. > > > > Note that there may be other requirements which are not codified, as > > mentioning > > only things that are packaged is not enough, it should say something like > > "must > > not use any stuff except for packages in main". > > Hi Andrew, > > I guess that it is implicit from the defintion of contrib that follows in > 2.2.2: > > The contrib archive area contains supplemental packages intended to work > with > the Debian distribution, but which require software outside of the > distribution > to either build or function. I've just understood both these statements mention requiring something non-free to *function*. Do we allow packages in main to require external services to function?
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